About Claire
Claire Laforges is a BACP-registered counsellor with seven years of professional experience. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction and mood difficulties like depression and bipolar. Claire also helps with sleeping problems, parenting strain, career worries and issues connected to ADHD and self-esteem.
Claire offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about painful topics. She listens closely and responds with practical tools and gentle reflection.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to help people understand what keeps problems going and to find small, realistic steps forward. Her background includes community outreach work and phone and online sessions. She has worked with adults and children across varied settings, drawing on a range of theories and hands-on techniques to meet each person where they are.
Claire has also done foundation-level infertility work and provides clinical supervision in the United Kingdom. In therapy she blends relationship-focused approaches with mindfulness and client-centred ways of working. This means sessions often mix reflective conversation, exercises to notice thoughts and feelings, and practical relationship tools when needed.
The goal is clearer self-understanding and better day-to-day coping. People can expect responsive communication and flexible scheduling. Claire aims to reply to messages within 24 hours on weekdays and updates her availability twice weekly.
She encourages small steps and realistic goals so progress feels manageable.
Approaches that suit online work and relationships
Claire uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional patterns; this can help people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears or repeating relationship conflicts. She also draws on Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on listening, acceptance and helping people find their own solutions through supportive conversation. When relationship issues are central she may use elements from the Gottman Method to teach practical skills for communication and conflict management.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Claire will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try approaches together to find what helps most. That collaboration means plans can change as needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through relational exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler for brief check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter reflections, ongoing check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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